Barry Diller Quotes

We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.

Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

The future is inherently uncertain.

In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

Every game is a new game, and anything can happen.

You never know what clicks at the box office. It's very unpredictable.

Nothing is a guarantee at all.

Predicting oil prices is anyone's guess.

Of course you can never say zero possibility or 100 per cent possibility in football, because you never know what will happen because football changes so rapidly.

You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.

We can't predict the future.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.

When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.